JohnB, I apologize for being slow responding to your thoughtful posting of the information (below) on the paper by David Robinson and Elizabeth Levy, ...
Ernest, thank you for including me in the loop in your conversation with Eric Merkt. I wonder if you would be willing to take this opportunity to ... My wife...
John B, please post the attached .pdf file for Ruth 1 on our website at your earliest convenience. Duane ******* My copy of the initial fasicle of BHQ...
Antonio de Nicolas, to whom my Qur'an book is dedicated, has chosen to speak frankly about my work in this splendid overview he now publishes about his own....
Ernest McClain
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Jan 4, 2005 8:30 am
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60 is divisible also by 60 and by 1--12 divisors. Duane, your suggestions here seem excellent. I should collate my data and present it as you suggest. I did...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 4, 2005 9:02 am
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Dear Duane, JohnB, Casper and BIBAL Group, Thank you for the links below. Quite aside from the specific information, which I hope I can get to, the mere fact...
Dear Duane, Casper and Group, If I could've afforded to, I would've gotten this volume (as it was, I spent a tremendous amount on books and software at SBL by...
... The emergence of Marduk in ancient Babylon, then, becomes as much a move toward what we call "monotheism" as that of Akhenaten in Egypt. This is a *new...
Duane, Our comments on this matter were written almost simultaneously. I am now forwarding my own new letter to Antonio to you. Ernest ... From: Duane...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 4, 2005 4:59 pm
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The net effect of my various transmissions today is to encourage everyone to hold fast to his own doubts. And until certainty arises in his own soul. The most...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 4, 2005 5:54 pm
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Ernest, thank you for sharing your letter to Antonio de Nicolas (which remains a private matter). Your response presents a correction to my own assumption in...
JohnB: Attached please find a revision of my file on Ruth 1. Please post this one on the website in place of what I sent you yesterday. I apologize for sending...
Duane, This is very helpful although I need you to unravel a closing sentence for me: "I cannot to plod my way through Antonio de Nicolas' book" leaves me...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 4, 2005 10:40 pm
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Ernest, my apologies for the typo -- once again I am working too fast and that always causes errors of this sort. I am CONTINUING TO PLOD MY WAY through...
An unqualified "Yes" to your initial insight into Gilgamesh. In his lusty young manhood he is the pride of the town, but an insufferable bully also (claiming...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 5, 2005 12:55 am
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Ernest, I am sending your INTRO TO GILGAMESH along to the BIBAL Yahoo Group, along with a brief table of the gods of Mesopotamia with their number nicknames. I...
No, Marduk is not, probably, god 10 (a storm god), but a replacement for all. And of course I forgot to tell you the most important one: 40 is Babylonian EA...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 5, 2005 8:45 pm
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I suggested earlier that Duane's study, accounting for vowel length, may have analogies with Plato's consideration of rhythm in Republic Book III where he...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 5, 2005 11:25 pm
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dear BIBAL here-- warts, mistakes and all-- is the sum of what I have the energy to produce for the time being re. evagrios of pontos. I hope Ernest, Duane,...
Dear Bryan Carr: I'm slowly working my way through your paper, but my math advisor Jay Kappraff is with me and I must prepare breakfast, and print this out for...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 7, 2005 1:52 pm
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Bryan, thank you for a most remarkable paper. I am in agreement with Ernest's initial response (to the first few pages) and look forward to dialogue on matters...
Dear Bryan Carr: I could not go to bed without completing a first quick perusal of your 27 pages on Evagrios and numerology. And I've read it with considerable...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 8, 2005 4:00 am
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All: Your generous remarks have been very encouraging, and I thank each of you. Duane--thank you very much for the pdf , as well as forwarding on the paper on...
Dear Brian Carr: Your "corrected" table is interesting in giving me a single item on which to focus. In this instance, however (and I do NOT generalize to...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 8, 2005 7:33 am
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Brian, thank you for your note of clarification. I forwarded your paper to Joel Kalvesmaki who I hoped might be willing to interact with you. But he remains...
Duane's attenton to 63 prompts this note of mine. The cube ratio of 1.26 reduces to 63/50 and is crucial to YHWH, while 64 is crucial in ANY "tetractys"...
Ernest McClain
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Jan 8, 2005 8:00 am
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Ernest, your reaction to Brian's "corrected" table {on the ages of the Patriarchs at death} is well taken, and probably correct. Nonetheless, I continue to...
+++ howdy. ... Oddly, both bryan and joel are from salt lake. i don't know if bryan knows this, or who joel the Lxx scholar even is, and i forget which high...
I'd like to share John B's humor about our confusion; can he explain what's so funny? I'd like to remind everybody that harmonics is essentially (by ...
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